MuleSoft Lead Developer / Architect

Job Title: MuleSoft Lead Developer / Architect

Work Location : California or PST time Zone ( Remote )

Contract duration: 12

Visa :- USC

Job Description:
We are seeking a MuleSoft Architect for Health Insurance Client to lead the design and delivery of modern, secure, and scalable integrations across our payer ecosystem. You will own the endtoend integration lifecycle from landscape assessment and requirements analysis to architecture & design, coding & build, test & performance tuning, and operationalization ensuring our platforms, data exchanges, and APIs meet business outcomes for members, providers, and partners.

You ll collaborate closely with Medical Policy, Claims Operations, Pharmacy, Provider Relations, Legal/Compliance, IT Integration, and Communications teams translating healthcare domain requirements into robust integration solutions. This role is handson and leadershiporiented: you will set standards, mentor engineers, and make architectural decisions that impact availability, security, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities :-

Integration Landscape & Analysis

• Assess current integration landscape (onprem, cloud, hybrid) including MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Azure services, Kafka/eventing, ETL pipelines, and legacy interfaces (e.g., Facets, AuthAccel / MHK, SmartCOMM, Documentum).
• Map critical business flows across A\&G, PDR, Claims, Pricing/DRG (3M Pricer), Provider, Pharmacy, and Member services.
• Elicit and analyze functional and non-functional requirements (availability, throughput, latency, resiliency, compliance).
• Identify integration patterns (synchronous APIs, async events, batch/ETL, file, B2B EDI) and leading indicators for performance bottlenecks.

Architecture & Design

• Define canonical API-led connectivity architecture (System APIs, Process APIs, Experience APIs), integration patterns (orchestration, choreography), and domaindriven boundaries.
• Design secure, scalable Mule APIs (RAML/REST), microservices, integration pipelines, and event-driven mechanisms (e.g., Kafka).
• Model health data interfaces (e.g., FHIR/HL7, X12/EDI, NCPDP), payer use cases (A\&G workflow events, pricing/DRG, eligibility/benefits, claims status, provider directories).
• Establish standards for security (OAuth 2.0, mTLS, JWT), PII/PHI protection, audit logging, secrets management, and HIPAA compliance.
• Create design artifacts: integration HLD/LLD, sequence diagrams, message schemas, error models, retry & DLQ strategies, and SLO/SLA definitions.

Build & Implementation

• Develop Mule flows, DataWeave transformations, custom connectors, and reusable templates; implement RAML/OAS specifications; configure Anypoint Runtime Manager and API Manager policies.
• Integrate with BSCA platforms (e.g., Salesforce/Health Cloud, Pega, SmartCOMM, 3M Pricer, Facets) and external agencies (e.g., DMHC, MAXIMUS IRE/QIC, providers).
• Automate CI/CD pipelines for APIs and integrations (Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), environment provisioning, and testing harnesses.

Testing, Performance & Reliability

• Define and execute test strategies (unit/integration/contract testing, mock services, test data management).
• Establish performance baselines; conduct load/stress testing, capacity planning, RU/throughput tuning, and caching strategies.
• Implement observability (logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards), alerting, and incident runbooks; champion SRE practices for integrations.

Governance & Leadership

• Own API and integration governance: versioning, lifecycle, documentation, cataloging, deprecation, and reusability.
• Mentor developers and analysts; run design reviews and code reviews; drive adoption of best practices and platform capabilities.
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and legal to ensure alignment with HIPAA, AB1184 retention, and payer regulatory requirements.
• Lead release planning and cutover calendars (Medicare vs Commercial cadence), risk management, and incident postmortems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s/Master s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in enterprise integration and API development; 4+ years architecting solutions on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
• Deep expertise in APIled connectivity, RAML/OAS, DataWeave, Mule runtime, and API Manager policy enforcement.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare payer integrations: FHIR/HL7, EDI/X12 (270/271, 276/277, 835/837), HIPAA, and payer operations.
• Experience with eventdriven architecture (Kafka), Azure cloud services, CI/CD, and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes is a plus).
• Security: OAuth 2.0, mTLS, TLS, JWT, secrets management (Key Vault), PII/PHI data handling, and audit compliance.
• Performance engineering: profiling, throughput tuning, scaling patterns, resilience design (retries, circuit breakers, DLQs).

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Experience integrating Salesforce Health Cloud, Pega, SmartCOMM, 3M Pricer, Facets, and health plan systems.
• Prior work with A\&G, PDR, Pricing/DRG, Provider Network, Pharmacy flows in a payer environment.
• Knowledge of California payer/regulatory context (e.g., DMHC, AB1184 retention considerations).
• Certifications:
• MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect / Platform Architect
• MuleSoft Certified Developer (MCD)
• SAFe, TOGAF, Azure certifications (AZ204/AZ400/AZ305) are a plus.

Key Competencies

• Architecture leadership: clear decisionmaking, tradeoff analysis, and alignment with enterprise roadmaps.
• Handson delivery: ability to design, code, and debug complex integrations.
• Stakeholder management: communicate with engineering, product, compliance, and operations teams; translate domain requirements into technical designs.
• Quality & reliability focus: build for availability, security, and observability; drive rootcause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Documentation & governance: produce highquality artifacts for supportability and audit readiness.

Tools & Platforms

• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (Design Center, Exchange, Runtime, API Manager)
• Azure (App Services, Key Vault, Monitor, DevOps Pipelines), Kafka
• Git, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Postman/ReadyAPI, JMeter/K6
• Splunk/App Insights (or equivalent) for logs/metrics/traces
• Confluence/Jira for documentation and agile delivery